{"id":45,"date":"2018-05-29T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/?p=45"},"modified":"2018-06-05T06:20:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T06:20:04","slug":"favorite-place-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/2018\/05\/29\/favorite-place-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Our favorite place on earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-45-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/files\/2018\/05\/Our-favorite-place-on-earth.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/files\/2018\/05\/Our-favorite-place-on-earth.mp3\">http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/files\/2018\/05\/Our-favorite-place-on-earth.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Listen as we talk with Tom and Cindy about their land, their favorite place on earth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/files\/2018\/05\/Tom-Cindy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2982\/files\/2018\/05\/Tom-Cindy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2982\/files\/2018\/05\/Tom-Cindy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2982\/files\/2018\/05\/Tom-Cindy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2982\/files\/2018\/05\/Tom-Cindy.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom and Cindy at their property.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This story begins in 1863 when Tom\u2019s great-great-grandfather purchased a homestead in the Walla Walla Valley. Tom, his wife Cindy, and their family now manage the land that has been passed down through four generations. Their grandson now helps tend the forest helping to make their forest more resilient to forest fire, insects and disease. The family dearly loves their property, which overlaps between Washington and Oregon. Tom says, \u201cIt was my grandfather\u2019s favorite place on earth, and it\u2019s my favorite place on earth.\u201d Cindy agrees, \u201cAnd it\u2019s mine, and I think I could probably say it\u2019s the children\u2019s too.\u201d \u00a0From huckleberries and mushrooms, to wolves and turkeys this land seems to have it all. Tom says, \u201cIf we had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/ODF\/Working\/Pages\/FPA.aspx\">Type II<\/a> stream with trout running through it, it would be perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen as we talk with Tom and Cindy about their land, their favorite place on earth. This story begins in 1863 when Tom\u2019s great-great-grandfather purchased a homestead in the Walla Walla Valley. Tom, his wife Cindy, and their family now manage the land that has been passed down through four generations. Their grandson now helps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/2018\/05\/29\/favorite-place-earth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our favorite place on earth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8637,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1281970],"tags":[1277446,1277800,1281969,1277111,1276985],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodland-stories","tag-family-forest-owners","tag-family-forests","tag-landsteward","tag-small-woodland-owners","tag-woodland-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/woodlandstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}